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Sara Gideon is once again trying to push a gas tax that could raise gas,
heating oil and other fuels by roughly 40 cents a gallon! Read more from
Team Collins below.

 

Gideon's Real Climate Change Plan: Raise Taxes on Hardworking Mainers

Gideon Supports Gas Tax Hike That'll Hurt Working Families, Farmers, &
Seniors

Hypocrisy Alert: Gideon Also Has Long Track Record of Donations from
Fossil Fuel Interests

 

Members of the press:

Sara Gideon released her "climate agenda" today.  Here's what she's
not telling you.

* Gideon's climate change agenda includes a gas tax. Gideon supports a
plan to hike taxes on gas, home heating oil, and other fuel products in
Maine by roughly 40 cents a gallon.

* Gideon has benefited heavily from fossil fuel interests, including oil
pipeline companies and fossil fuel billionaires like Donald Sussman, Tom
Steyer, and Michael Zilka.

* Gideon doesn't address how she's going to pay for her plan.

Gideon's devastating gas and heating oil tax would especially affect
working families and seniors - the people who can least afford
Gideon's new tax.

The gas tax bill that Gideon supports, LD 434, "An Act to Price Carbon
Pollution in Maine," would have slapped a new fee on fuel distributors
in Maine. It would have affected fuel products from gasoline to diesel
to home heating oil. Gideon cosponsored andspoke at a press conference
in support of the bill
.

The money taken from Mainers by Gideon's new tax would not have been
used to fix and improve Maine's crumbling infrastructure. Instead, it
would have gone to a brand new fund administered by the Maine Public
Utilities Commission and distributed to Central Maine Power and other
utilities.

Gideon has taken donations from oil pipeline companies like Enbridge
, raised
money at the Houston mansion of fossil fuel billionaire Michael Zilka,
and is benefiting from millions of dollars of political support from
Donald Sussman and Tom Steyer
,
two billionaires who made their fortune in fossil fuels.

 
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